Wife Swap

Both men trade homes and families for two weeks they must take each others jobs and responsibilities who does the better job

This is current DBS Goku and Rebirth Superman

My sons and I watched wife swap wwwaaayyy back in the day and I just noticed it’s on Hulu now. While the 3 of us were talking, I saw that one of the children on it had killed his mom and one of his brothers, then tried to kill himself but he survived. We watched the episode (s4e15), and this family was deep into it. They had all sons, some of them adult, who were not allowed to date, watch tv, play video games, were sequestered on their farm, and played in a family bluegrass band. They had to earn tokens to get privileges, like listening to the radio (certain things only), by doing chores. You can tell on the show by their reactions to the new rules, that they are brainwashed in a very unhealthy way, but then actually enjoy some of the things the swapped mom encouraged them to do. The whole thing was very sad and tragic to watch knowing the outcome. The family’s last name was Stockdale.

Did anyone watch the show “wife swap”? The producers would take two families who were comically different, like one family is loud and plays practical jokes on each other, another is intellectual and quiet. And they make them switch homes for two weeks. For week 1 they have to abide by the new family’s rules. For week 2 they get to impose their rules from their way of life on the new family.

When they return, they sometimes implement things they learned with their own family.

So if you were a producer, who would you “wife swap” for an entertaining show?

I would choose Jordan Page and Tidy Dad.

Jordan would learn about her excess from having to clean Tidy Dad’s tiny apartment and would know his kids better than her own within two weeks…with that tiny apartment and lack of babysitters on weekends. If she somehow had to teach she’d maybe value education more.

And Tidy Dad would have to try to relax into absolute chaos. lol.

Hear me out. A show where the leader of groups have to swap with each other for a week. Change dorms, ect ect.

I would pay so much money for this show. Significant amounts of it.

I wanna see Hongjoong trying to control Stray Kids, or Shownu suddenly put in charge of the boyz.

It would be incredible

EDIT: Extra entertainment would be showing the leader clips of their chaotic group potentially behaving better for the sub than they have ever behaved for them

I thought it was going to suck but Bob to the AM and Craig to the PM is excellent.

I think MMW and Bossbabe Birthy would be bananas...

• DâäªVe and Miss mid nazi would enjoy cosplaying together, but they would both secretly think that they are the better looking, more interesting one. House would be spotless though.

• Thumb and Bethy ... . Bethy would be filming reels atop piles of laundry and garbage, pure chaos. Thumb would try to bully Bethy once, and then she would absolutely steam roll him. Thumb would cry in the shower just to have a moments peace.

Plenty of us have agreed that SW and NK were ultimately different flavors of the same controlling woman. But something recently came to my mind: we like to say that CW and SW were only together because it was convenient or that they were mismatched even from the start....were they? CW being a gear head and SW working and being part of the culture of Dirty South actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it. SW came across as someone who knew a lot about cars and enjoyed the sexy vibe and culture of where she worked. I can absolutely see CW falling head over heels for her in the beginning. She absolutely was his type for where he was at that point in his life. Y'all also know that I think he was ultimately a childfree man. I think he would have been perfectly content having zero kids. Marrying the sexy and fun boss babe with fertility issues and no kids from her first marriage of six years sounds right up his alley. We know their story so there isn't much more to go into with that.

Not even a decade later we have NK enter the picture. CW had gotten back into working out, and SW was pregnant with their third child. We can't be exactly sure when his affair began, but we do know that it was physical when SW and the kids were in NC.

My question is two fold: Let's say we switch the characters, do you think that if CW had initially married NK and later met SW that he would have cheated? I know that looks aren't everything, but in my opinion SW is overall better looking and at the time when they met, she was sexier. NK was plain Jane and to be honest I side eye a woman that interested in fitness and guy stuff who is still single at her age. It makes me think that long term commitment just isn't her thing. Couple that with her wanting CW to find his own place instead of inviting him to live with her and continuing to keep her dating profiles open, I do wonder how serious she was about him. And please do not come at me with Google searches. Her best friend was getting married and without context we have no idea what those Google searches were about or if they were applicable to her personal life. Actions speak louder than Google searches.

My thoughts are that CW was interested in NK because she was new and different and he was in his glow up.

My second question is this: Do you think that a lot of the anger and resentment that CW had towards SW was that his marriage was a far cry from what he thought he was getting in the beginning?

These thoughts are coming from just an overall idea that some men level up while married to cheat with someone who is different than their wife, but that they aren't showing what they're truly interested in, had they initially married their mistress, they could just as easily cheat on that type of woman with the woman they married.

When in reality SW and NK were a lot alike, just different in that NK had less debt. Heck, the other day I paused a video of SW without make up and if I told you it was NK, you'd believe me.

Thanks for bearing with me guys 😂 tell me what you think!

I’m on maternity leave and have been binging Wife Swap.

Before the women go to their “new” families, they’re asked what they hope to gain from the experience.

The answers are usually along the lines of “having my family realize how much I do” or “sharing my views with others”.

If you were able to swap into a different family for two weeks, what would you hope to experience? What rules do you value and would bring into another household?

i’ve been bingeing wife swap on hulu and now my mom and i have moved on to celebrity wife swap. we just watched the corey feldman/tommy davidson episode. if you haven’t seen it already, you gotta watch it. it is outright hysterical (aside from how sad it really is). i would love to hear other people’s thoughts

Just starting this episode now, and I find it so disrespectful to the show and the contestants that they are doing this so late in the season. Particularly with Melinda and Harrison. Just another example of why I will not be watching another season of this nonsense. Harrison and Bronte are totally fake and a complete act, and this wife swap just amplifies how bad this show has become. What a shit show.

Anybody else out there watch Wife Swap UK and/or Australia? They're available free to stream on several platforms. Personally I strongly prefer these over the US version -- the episodes are longer so they can get into more detail.

Were there some moms or families on the show where you didn’t agree with their values or philosophies but you ended up liking them as people? This has happened too many times for me to count because I love it when people learn from the experience. Like wow! I thought this dad was really tough or misogynistic but he’s open to change and listen.

Only thing that sticks out in my mind is that episode where this housewife who did everything for her family switches places with a mom who never does chores and whose husband ghost hunts. I felt so bad for the housewife because that family was so mean to her because she was not as educated. Although I believe in education and lifelong learning, I don’t believe in being unkind to people who are less educated just for the sake of it. And i appreciated her for being vulnerable and realizing that her own family walks all over her because she has a people-pleasing problem, even though she didn’t phrase it that way.

I know we’ll all have different values on this so please be kind!

In the UK we get old reruns of USA programmes. I just watched wife swap USA season 12 episode 3. One of the family’s involved are YouTube family vloggers, the children from that family tell the other wife that they are not missing their mom the hate being on camera etc. It’s worth a watch.

The recent posts about Bethanys inability to see any kind of lifestyle outside of her own had me thinking- if you could wife swap Bethy what would you want her to have to go to? Doesn’t have to be a specific family but just in general where would you want her to go and her “new family” rules be and experiences she would get? And do you think she would change her views ever or just go through the whole thing feeling superior? (Also can comment about your fantasy wife swap for your favorite fundie!)